Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen
Galchen speaking at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Born (1976-04-19) April 19, 1976
Toronto, Canada
Occupation Writer
Nationality Canadian, American
Notable works Atmospheric Disturbances (2008)
Notable awards William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction

Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Early life

Galchen was born in Toronto, Canada. When she was an infant, her parents relocated to the United States, where she has lived ever since.[1] From 1981 to 1994 she lived in Norman, Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-Chen, was a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and her mother was a computer programmer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.[2][3]

In 1994 Galchen began attending Princeton University, where she was an English major. In her sophomore year, she applied to an early-admissions program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.[2] She received her M.D. from Mount Sinai in 2003, with a focus in psychiatry.[4] After medical school, she received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham fellow.[5] She was a 2006 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers.[4]

In early 2011, Galchen served as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.[6]

Career

Galchen has written for several national magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and The Believer.

Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, features a character with her father's name, Tzvi Gal-Chen. The character is a professor of meteorology and a fellow of the fictional Royal Academy of Meteorology.[7] The novel was published in May 2008.[5] The novel was a finalist for the Mercantile Library's 2008 John Sargent, Sr., First Novel Prize, the Canadian Writers' Trust's 2008 Fiction Prize,[8][9] and the 2008 Governor General's Award.[10]

Galchen teaches writing at Columbia University[11] and is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine.

In 2010 Galchen was chosen by The New Yorker as one of its "20 Under 40".[12]

Galchen's short-story collection, American Innovations, was published in 2014.[13][14][15][16][17] The collection was longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize and awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.

Bibliography

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Fiction

Novels

  • Galchen, Rivka (2008). Atmospheric disturbances. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Short Story Collections

  • Galchen, Rivka (2014). American Innovations: Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Non-Fiction

  • Galchen, Rivka (2016). Little Labours. New York: New Directions.

List of short stories

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
The region of unlikeness 2008 Galchen, Rivka (March 24, 2008). "The region of unlikeness". The New Yorker.
Wild berry blue 2008 Galchen, Rivka. "Wild berry blue". Open City. 25. Dave Eggers, ed. (2009). The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009. New York: Mariner.
Once an empire 2010 Galchen, Rivka (Feb 2010). "Once an empire". Harper's.
The lost order 2013 Galchen, Rivka (January 7, 2013). "The lost order". The New Yorker.
How Can I Help? 2016 Galchen, Rivka (September 19, 2016). "How Can I help?". The New Yorker.

Essays and reporting

  • "My Mother, Myself". The New York Times, 2007.
  • "Dream Machine: The Mind-Expanding World of Quantum Computing". The New Yorker, 2011.
  • "From the pencil zone: Robert Walser's masterworklets". Harper's Magazine, 2010.
  • "Borges on Pleasure Island" (2010), essay in the New York Times
  • "Disaster Aversion: The Quest to Control Hurricanes". Harper's Magazine, 2009.
  • "Case Notes of a Medical Student". Triple Canopy.
  • "The Future of Paper". This Land, 2011.
  • Galchen, Rivka (May 13, 2013). "Every disease on Earth : Elmhurst Hospital's medical melting pot". Annals of Medicine. The New Yorker. 89 (13): 50–57.
  • — (June 3, 2013). "Big weather". The Talk of the Town. In Oklahoma. The New Yorker. 89 (16): 18–19.
  • The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies: On the bonds made between parents and children during a nightly ritual. New York Times Magazine, 2015
  • — (April 13, 2015). "Weather underground : the arrival of man-made earthquakes". Letter from Oklahoma. The New Yorker. 91 (8): 34–40. Retrieved 2015-06-19.

References

  1. ↑ "Heartbreak and loss lie beneath fantastic tale". The Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  2. 1 2 "Rivka Galchen, M.D. from Oklahoma Is the Latest Successor to Pynchon". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 2013-01-30. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  3. ↑ http://www.observer.com/2008/rivka-galchen-m-d-oklahome-latest-successor-pynchon?page=2. Retrieved May 17, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. 1 2 "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2006". Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  5. 1 2 "Macmillan: Atmospheric Disturbances". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  6. ↑ "Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow, Class of Spring 2011". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  7. ↑ "She's Not Herself: A first novel about marriage and madness". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  8. ↑ "2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize Finalists". The Mercantile Library for Fiction. Archived from the original on 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  9. ↑ "2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists". The Writers' Trust. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  10. ↑ "Rivka Galchen". Columbia University. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  11. ↑ "Not Exactly By The Book: rivka galchen reveals her convoluted route to authorship". The Columbia Spectator. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  12. ↑ "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". The New Yorker. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  13. ↑ Kelly, Hillary (2014-05-06). ""American Innovations" by Rivka Galchen Reviewed". New Republic. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  14. ↑ Langer, Adam (May 7, 2014). "Short Stories That Riff Playfully on Some Enduring Forebears". The New York Times.
  15. ↑ Kirsch, Adam (May 8, 2014). "Rivka Galchen Is Not Your Mommy". Tablet.
  16. ↑ Gartner, Zsuzsi (May 16, 2014). "American Innovations: Canadian-born Rivka Galchen hits it out of the park again and again". The Globe and Mail.
  17. ↑ Cheuse, Alan (May 14, 2014). "Everyday Life Is a Rich Mine Of Absurdity In 'American Innovations'". NPR.

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